Method of pulling candy.



No. 733,313. 1 PATENTED AUG. 11, 1303. 3 '3. THIBODEAUI.

METHOD OF PULLING' CANDY.

APPLICATION FILE]? JULY 10, 1901.

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No. 736,313. v PATENTED AUG. 11,1903

0. THIBODEAU. METHOD OF PULLING CANDY.

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PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903. O. THIBODEAU. METHOD OPPULLING CANDY.

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UNI-TED STATES Patented August 11, 1903. a

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MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CATHERINE M. TI-IIBODEAU, OF SOMERVILLE,

MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF PULLING CANDY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 73 6,313, dated August11, 1903.

Application filed July 10,1901. Serial No. 67,695. (No model.)

specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved method of pulling candy;and it con sists in certain novel features of construction andarrangement of parts, fully described in the specification, clearlyillustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the Of theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1represents an end elevation of a candy'pulling machine constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a plan view thereof.Fig. 3 represents a side elevation. Figs. 4 to 13, inelusive, representdiagrammatic views showing different positions of the working parts ofthe machine.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, wherein is shown the mechanism for carryingout my invention, 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent four substantially parallelpins secured to levers 5 5. The levers 5 are secured to the inner endsof two shafts 6 6, which are journaled in bearings 7 7 at the upperends'of standards 8 8, said standards 8 8 being shown as mounted upon abase 9. Each shaft is provided with a gear 10, which meshes with anintermediate gear or idler 11,

the latter in turn meshing with a gear 12. The two gears 12 are securedto a common drive-shaft 13, rotated in any suitable manner, asby meansof cone-pulleys 14 15 and a shifting-belt 16, whereby different speedsof the said shaft may be obtained. By the described arrangement ofshafts and gearing the levers 5 5 are rotated in the same direction atan equal speed. Each lever has a short arm 17 and a long arm 18, at theends of which arms the pins 1, 2, 3, and 4 are affixed. The said pinsare thus located at unequal distances from their axes of revolution, thepins 1 2 on the short arms 17 being located nearer to the shafts 6 6than the pins 2 4 on the longer arms 18.

The pins 1, 2, 3, and4and their supportingshafts 6 are so related thatthe circles described by the pins 1 and 5, which are nearest the shafts6 6, do not intersect, while the circles described by the pins 2 4,which are farthest away from the shafts 6 6, intersect each other. Theresult of this construction is a novel action, the successive stages ofwhich are represented in Figs. 4 to 13. Figs. 4 to 11. show thepositions of the parts at quarter-turns of the shafts 6 6. Fig. 12 showstheir positions at slightly less than a quarter-turn from the positionsshown in Fig. 11. Fig. 13 shows the positions at slightly more than aquarter-turn from the positions shown in Fig. 12.

Let it be assumed that an elongated rope or batch 20 of candy has beenattached to the pin 1. Then the pins are all in one plane and the pins 24 on the long arms of the levers have crossed each others paths, aquarterturn of the shafts will bring the parts to the positionrepresented in Fig. 5. Another quarter-turn causes the rope of candy tooverlie the pin 2 of the same set as pin 1, as shown in Fig. 6. Anotherquarter-turn bends the rope 20 over pin 2, as shown in Fig. 7. Anotherquarter-turn causes the rope to be doubled on the pins 1 2 and bringsthe pin 4 of the set on the other bracket underneath the doubledstrands, as illustrated in Fig. 8. The next quarter-turn brings theparts to the position represented in Fig. 9, in which the doubled ropesupported by the pins 1 2 has been pulled out or stretched into a loopby the pin 4. The next quarter-turn brings the pins 1 Son the short armsadjacent to each other with the pin 3 about to come into action, asshown in Fig. 10. It may be assumed that the feeding of the rope ofcandy is then discontinued and the machine has received its full quota.In the next quarter-turn the pins 1 3 draw away from each other and pullor stretch out the candy between them. In Fig. 12, which shows the partsjust before the completion of the next quarter-turn, the pins 2 4 on thelong arms are crossing each others paths and the candy, which is alreadyin quadruple strands, is about to be doubled again on each set of pins.After the pins have come into the same plane the next quarter-turnbrings them into the positions shown in Fig. 13, in which both the pins2 and 4 are exerting the action which the pin 4 is exerting in Fig. 9.The next quarter-turn brings the parts again to positions shown in Fig.10, and the subsequent pulling is a repetition of the action shown inFigs. 10, 11, 12, and 13. It will be understood that after. each stretchcaused by the moving away from each other of two pins carrying the candythe mass that is intermediate of said pins is then laterally deflectedby the next pin to engage it. The operation of my improved machinetherefore causes the candy to be quickly and uniformly stretched out bythe pins, which act as pullers. One pin in each set, as the pins 1 and 4in the drawings, may be bent or bowed toward their axes of revolution inorder to keep the candy centered on the rods.

In the operation of the machine the candy is not necessarily wound onthe pins successively, as shown in Figs. 4 to 10, this method beingselected merely to clearly illustrate the action of the machine. Thecandy may be applied to the machine in any suitable manner. Forinstance, when the parts have the positions represented in Fig. 6, thepins 1 and 3 being adjacent, a batch of candymay be wrapped around ormolded on said pins 1 and 3 and the machine then started, whereupon theaction illustrated in Figs. 10 to 13 will soon ensue and be continuouslyrepeated. In starting to work a batch of candy the machine is preferablyrun slowly at first and its speed gradually increased until the normalworking speed has been attained. In the operation of the machine thecandy is alternately automatically fed and refed to the pins (see Figs.9 and 1 2) and then pulled and repulled, (see Figs. 8 and 13,) thisoperation continuing until the candy has been pulled to the desiredextent.

I do not confine myself to the exact construction shown,as variousmodifications may be made within the scope of the invention, whichincludes power-driven candy-pulling pins arranged to move inintersecting and non-intersecting paths and to automatically feed andrefeed the candy to each other and then pull or repull the fed or refedcandy.

In the place of the pins I may employ other forms of pulling members andthe arms and pins may be differently arranged and positioned, so long asthey operate the described way. The path of motion of the pins may, ifdesired, be made that of polygons besides circles.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way ofconstructing and using the same, though without at tempting to set forthall of the forms in which it may be made or all the modes of its use,what-I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method of pulling candy which consists in moving one portion of abatch in a continuous path, simultaneously moving another portion in adifferent continuous path to stretch the intermediate mass, and thenlaterally deflecting the said intermediate mass.

2. The method of pulling candy which consists in moving one portion of abatch in a continuous path, simultaneously moving another portion in adifferent continuous path to stretch the intermediate mass, thenlaterally deflectin g the said intermediate mass and moving it in acontinuous path differing from the two first-mentioned paths, andcontinuing these operations to alternately pull the candy and carry itfrom one path to another.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES THIBODEAU. Vitnesses:

E. BATC ELDER, I'LL. ROBBINS.

